A Little Light Reading
Nov. 6th, 2021 05:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madimpossibledreamerI'd like to say I know where this AU comes from but I do not. I can say this doesn't exist on Ao3 at least--the only ones I found were with Phoenix as P4 MC, and as much as I love Classic AA I find it easier to write Klavier & Apollo for some reason (which is part of why Turnabout Histories is taking so long, other than the issues with plotting actual cases with limited time/bandwidth).
Fittingly, this is a lead-in to the background material/fanfic posts I also have finished for the future and is something completely random that definitely does not start from the beginning.
Mia started out as librarian before I remembered I'd already cast her as Velvet Room assistant, and then I had a huge debate as to whether or not I wanted to keep that and concluded Maya Fey, Librarian was an interesting dynamic too. (Fanfic slightly fixes this, but law libraries are interesting and useful and provide interesting opportunities just like captain's logs in Star Trek. It's flavor but it's so much more than that too)
Main Points:
Ace Attorney/Persona 4 AU
Chapter Summary: Apollo has some questions, and the library (for once) is the best place to find answers.
Word Count: 490
Rating: Teen
“Ehhh, I got teased, again, for not knowing what my own name meant, so I figured it was time to figure it out.” It’s not entirely a lie, either, though he’s not sure if he could call anything Hugh did ‘teasing’.
“And the psychology?” she continues, gesturing to the books on Jung, and he’s slightly concerned she knows where he’s going with this. He’s half-tempted to ask her if she knows her sister’s not dead, just an assistant in the Velvet Room, but either she thinks the stress of midterms is getting to him or she knows exactly what he’s talking about and tries to stop him. Neither are good options.
“They’re for Athena.” He really needs to get out of here before he has to start lying. He sucks at that.
“Well, you can take those, but the mythology books are just reference material, so you’re not supposed to take them from the library.” He figured. It’s why he’d brought an entirely new notebook to take notes.
“I’ll just be over there, in the nook. Oh, um, and it might be against the rules, but I ordered a burger delivery for later, so…” Ordinarily, he wouldn’t even think about breaking rules like that, but he’s gotten…a little more flexible since all of this started. He’ll definitely need to eat something before they head into the TV later tonight, because fighting on an empty stomach led to Clay fainting once, and he’s not going to have time between this and his next class.
Ms. Fey tries to look stern, but the effect is ruined a little by how eager she looks. “I hope you ordered at least three.”
“Y-yes ma’am, but one of them really is for me, so…do I need to get more?” He hopes not. He really, really doesn’t want to have to go to the Meraktis Clinic again tomorrow. Among other things he’s pretty sure some of the things they’re doing are illegal.
She seriously thinks about it. “I’ll let you off with a bribe of two burgers today.”
Great. “Thanks, Ms. Fey, you’re the best!” he says with fake cheer, and the response of “It’s Maya!” follows him to the nook.
The next time he comes in, she doesn’t say anything aloud, just gives him a pointed look, and even though his wallet is crying from buying supplies and weapons and whatever else they need, he’s resigned himself to burger bribes.
Fittingly, this is a lead-in to the background material/fanfic posts I also have finished for the future and is something completely random that definitely does not start from the beginning.
Mia started out as librarian before I remembered I'd already cast her as Velvet Room assistant, and then I had a huge debate as to whether or not I wanted to keep that and concluded Maya Fey, Librarian was an interesting dynamic too. (Fanfic slightly fixes this, but law libraries are interesting and useful and provide interesting opportunities just like captain's logs in Star Trek. It's flavor but it's so much more than that too)
Main Points:
Ace Attorney/Persona 4 AU
Chapter Summary: Apollo has some questions, and the library (for once) is the best place to find answers.
Word Count: 490
Rating: Teen
“Hiya, Polly! What’s with the sudden interest in mythology?” Ms. Fey has a really good point, but then, she would, given that she’d been one of the assistants for Phoenix Wright back in the day. She might seem like an airhead, but the more Apollo explores the more he realizes nothing is what it seems at Themis. These days, she might mostly just be in charge of the library and finding legal precedent for the Themis kids, but she’s almost certainly sharper than she appears.
“Ehhh, I got teased, again, for not knowing what my own name meant, so I figured it was time to figure it out.” It’s not entirely a lie, either, though he’s not sure if he could call anything Hugh did ‘teasing’.
“And the psychology?” she continues, gesturing to the books on Jung, and he’s slightly concerned she knows where he’s going with this. He’s half-tempted to ask her if she knows her sister’s not dead, just an assistant in the Velvet Room, but either she thinks the stress of midterms is getting to him or she knows exactly what he’s talking about and tries to stop him. Neither are good options.
“They’re for Athena.” He really needs to get out of here before he has to start lying. He sucks at that.
“Well, you can take those, but the mythology books are just reference material, so you’re not supposed to take them from the library.” He figured. It’s why he’d brought an entirely new notebook to take notes.
“I’ll just be over there, in the nook. Oh, um, and it might be against the rules, but I ordered a burger delivery for later, so…” Ordinarily, he wouldn’t even think about breaking rules like that, but he’s gotten…a little more flexible since all of this started. He’ll definitely need to eat something before they head into the TV later tonight, because fighting on an empty stomach led to Clay fainting once, and he’s not going to have time between this and his next class.
Ms. Fey tries to look stern, but the effect is ruined a little by how eager she looks. “I hope you ordered at least three.”
“Y-yes ma’am, but one of them really is for me, so…do I need to get more?” He hopes not. He really, really doesn’t want to have to go to the Meraktis Clinic again tomorrow. Among other things he’s pretty sure some of the things they’re doing are illegal.
She seriously thinks about it. “I’ll let you off with a bribe of two burgers today.”
Great. “Thanks, Ms. Fey, you’re the best!” he says with fake cheer, and the response of “It’s Maya!” follows him to the nook.
The next time he comes in, she doesn’t say anything aloud, just gives him a pointed look, and even though his wallet is crying from buying supplies and weapons and whatever else they need, he’s resigned himself to burger bribes.
